samiel

3 definitions found

samiel - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Samiel \Sa"mi*el\ (?; 277), n. [Turk. sam-yeli; Ar. samm poison
     + Turk. yel wind. Cf. Simoom.]
     A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey,
     from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia
     and the kamsin of Syria.
     [1913 Webster]

samiel - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  samiel
      n 1: a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and
           North Africa [syn: simoom, simoon, samiel]

samiel - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "samiel":
     Santa Ana, chinook, chinook wind, devil, dust storm, foehn,
     harmattan, hot wind, khamsin, peesash, sandstorm, shaitan, simoom,
     sirocco, snow eater, solano, thawer, volcanic wind